Published in 2022, this experimental guide to Venice forms a new, illuminating and disturbing mosaic of the water city and its Lagoon.

Venice’s critical environment is a paradigmatic case for comprehending socio-environmental history in dialogue with the Earth sciences.

We are live in the venerable International Court of Stratigraphic Arbitration, and on trial is the question whether concrete, the unparalleled material, is indeed an admissible marker for defining the onset of the Anthropocene.

What does it mean to sense, to know, to witness? Artists Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani propose an “ecopedagogy” that awakens us to a network of relationality.

From the context of the Kuils River near Cape Town, South Africa, Nikiwe Solomon and Adrian Van Wyk reckon with the question—whose knowledge really matters?

In this screening and artist talk, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine discuss their film Homo Urbanus Venetianus,a vibrant tribute to public space.

Explorations of suburbia and its “newly urgent legibility” within US political geography blend into personal reflections on modes of living in the St. Louis region and beyond.

There are uncountable ways to look at a river, yet many of them are invisible in today’s cartographic depictions.

Architect and urbanist Nikos Katsikis describes the assemblage of “operational landscapes” that are tied to the Mississippi basin.

Extractive processes have historically shaped the human-environment relations along the Mississippi. In this piece, Morgan Adamson calls for a radical new imagining for the river’s future.

In keeping with many of the themes underpinning the Anthropocene River Campus, Eleonora Rohland explains how the question of adaptation so present post-Katrina has a much longer history in NOLA.

Anthropologist Dominic Boyer and sociologist Mark Vardy describe the amphibious futurism that needs to prevail if Houston is to survive the twenty-first century.

Introduction to season 2 of the podcast. The field station finds itself stationed in Berlin, Germany where Abbéy Odunlami sits down with various interlocutors to understand what migration means to this section of the global north.

Cooperation Jackson is an emerging vehicle for sustainable community development, economic democracy, and community ownership. Listen to episode 5 now!

Regan Golden proposes the observation deck at the Visitor Center of St. Anthony as a space for thinking about one’s relationship with—and detachment from—landscape.

On the spatial politics of plantation economies and the connection between faith and environmentalism. Episode 4 available now!

Jared Richardson and Dr. Justin Hosbey grapple with neoliberalism’s effects on Black communities within New Orleans. Listen to episode 3 now!

Talk with Dr. Chelsea Frazier about the importance of Black feminism’s political and artistic engagements with environmentalism. Episode 2 available now!

The exploratory research project Technosphere 2015–2019 investigated the origins and future itineraries of technological agency in the Anthropocene.

The entire history of American settlement experienced in one afternoon stroll.

How did the agricultural practices of prehistoric civilizations contribute to the environmental conditions of the Anthropocene?

What can the mounds of North America—from temples to landfills—tell us about the history of settlement and the anthropogenic condition we inhabit today?

The Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta synthesized the downstream Mississippi within a week-long field research and educational event at Tulane University, as well as sites in and around New Orleans.

At the “Midway Meeting” in St. Louis, project partners gathered to explore the temporal and topographical multiplicitices of the metropolitcan region of St. Louis.

A narrative-based podcast that discusses how geography determines many people’s relationship to resources, land, and wellbeing.

The art initiative Laboratory for a Radical Suburbia explores human connections to both land and to the environmental impacts of capitalist cycles of extraction, production, and consumption on that land.

A multi-scale map of the Mississippi watershed around St. Louis for the “river rats” of the Anthropocene.

Significant and Insignificant Mounds looks to read two landscapes across one another in order to complicate our understandings of authenticity, meaning, and form.

In the St. Louis region, memories and meanings of millennia of settlement collide. Anthropocene Vernacular investigates how everyday culture has been cultivated in the midst of social, environmental, economic crises.

A multilayered project towards the de-regulation of nature.

This seminar will reflect on the challenges that mass migration, resource management, and market dynamics impose on the practitioners of architecture.

Mississippi. An Anthropocene River aims to make the Mississippi River Basin legible as a zone of ecological, historical, and social interaction between humans and the environment using novel forms of exchange, research, collaboration, and pedagogy.

Architect and food thinker Carolyn Steel provides a powerful prompt for us to move beyond the perils of the modern industrial food complex.

Urbanization organizes the planetary terrain—not just through cities and agglomeration zones, but also through the totality of diffused production areas and global commodity chains.

How can design reclaim the forms, technologies, economies and logistics of waste streams in the production of urbanism?

In the current design of large-scale infrastructural projects, the planetary future hinges on a new norm: perpetual prototyping and demoing.

Using ethnographic material from the largest prayer camp in Nigeria, sociologist and historian of religion Asonzeh Ukah describes the interdependence between religious faith in redemption, prosperity theology, and the (sub)urban infrastructure managed by the camp.

Historian of architecture and urbanism Carola Hein investigates the establishment, transformation, and future of the global petroleumscape.

Philosopher Etienne Turpin sketches the root problematics faced by the city of Jakarta as exemplified by its land and sea interfaces.

Creolized technologies can be understood as reasserting the “human” in the technosphere, but theorist and urbanist Elisa T. Bertuzzo argues that this is not necessarily humane.

With new urban spatial products proliferating globally, subsequent forms of advertising these products have emerged to lure in global investment. But what are the selling points?

Urban planning and architecture carry a form of utopian optimism for a livable city with them. Yet, all too often infrastructural dreams turn into nightmares and the skyward ideals of a towered cityscape turns into the symbolism of degraded holes.

Adventures between Technofauna and Mauerite: A personal narrative of travels in the Anthropozöic region of Berlin Moabit in the year 2016.

“Today I woke up and I was completely stunned.” A Flora Universalis for the Anthropocene.

Tracing shadows—an examination of technological datasets and Romantic concepts in the study area of Berlin-Moabit.

A conversation on ruderal ecologies, unintended landscape design and the pitfalls of Anthropocene discourse.

How can we grasp the immense physical and temporal dimensions of the technosphere and why should we isolate the human agency within it? An argument for taking a metropolitan perspective.

How is the Technosphere governed? And how could it be governed otherwise? One way to tackle these issues is by looking at cybernetic finance—showing how a complex system can be overtaken by an excess of self-reference.

Anthropogenic Landscapes ground us in the Anthropocene. They connect us with the land and the ecologies we shape, inhabit, and make use of, as they stress how intimately we are creating the planet that is recursively creating us. A  fieldtrip to the former VEB Elektrokohle (People’s Enterprise Electro-coal) in Berlin-Lichtenberg helped us to observe, study, and reshape the shift from the larger context down to the local.

How might we observe the Anthropocene in our local context? What, in other words, is the scenery of the Anthropocene?